Feb. 15, 2008 - cheap public schools
Money! It’s such a worry for me. Sometimes I feel I should just let go and let God cause we are always provided for and survive but the college education got a work mentality still gots me. So today I was running around, dropping one child at the coop for awhile as I ran to get the other from a preschool (so I don’t have to run around after him and for other reasons at the moment), then we had to run to meet a teacher I am substitute teaching for the next two weeks. All the running around reminded me why I hated working. And the cost of daycare and finding a place for my school age son will take most of the money I will earn. In fact, I’ll be left with only $15 dollars a day, and that doesn’t include taxes! Again, I’m reminded of one of the reasons we decided I should stay at home. Then I thought, well, it’d be cheaper and I’d make money if my son was in public school. A bus would bring him to school, or they have after and before school care that I’d have to pay for but the rest of the day I wouldn’t have to pay for. So, maybe that’s why public school is so popular. It works for working parents. But if I’m running around to work, trying to figure out what we’re going to eat, my kids and I barely seeing each other, and I’m not making any money, why should I go to work? I’ll just have to breathe and remind myself it’s only for two weeks and it’s a good lesson to just stay home and put the home back in homeschool. (P.S. God does provide and a homeschool mom offered to take my school age son for the whole two weeks – so he’ll have fun and we can pay off some of our bills!)
